Tool of the week: TinEye Reverse Image Search, better than Google

Tool of the week: TinEye Reverse Image Search, better than Google

The tool is simple. Upload an image or a link to an image. TinEye will search its image collections using image identification technology (instead of keywords, metadata or watermarks) to let you know where the image was used online before.

To date, their website claims that Idée Inc. has indexed 2,269,057,615 Internet images.

The tool has been used in everything from uncovering copyright infringements on photos (e.g. Obama Hope Campaign) to individuals figuring out if online dating profiles are real or actually stock photos.